Abu Dhabi: Grade 12 pupils at Indian schools in the capital said on Tuesday their joy and relief over an official clarification last week that they did not need to study “compulsory Arabic” were short-lived. They said although the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec),the school regulator in the emirate, said in an official statement issued to Gulf News that Arabic was compulsory up to grade 10 only, the Indian schools were continuing their compulsory Arabic classes for grades 11 and 12. “I was delighted to read the news that we don’t need to start studying Arabic at this last minute. But it was short-lived,” a grade 12 pupil at Abu Dhabi Indian School (Adis) told Gulf News yesterday.